TCEC Cup 14

Flowchart of fixed seedings for top 8 in the TCEC Cup Event

This page TCEC Cup 14 is used for engines registration, to see which engines and updates have been requested, announced and received.

Deadline for sending in 

Friday 27 September 2024 17:00 UTC postponed to last move of last game of prior Swiss 7

Official start is ...

• for authors see Engines_and_authors
• for rules see TCEC Cup rules

Explanation of typography

Explanation of special typography:

• bold engines are invited for this particular event and contact has been sought or established with, the author(s)
• struck through means declined or not participating
• bold italics means engine and/or update received.
• italics means engine same as last event.
• underlined means possible invite

Engines invited including update information

Preliminary invites to top 40 during round 9 of Swiss 7

1. LeelaChessZero - update expected - LCZero 0.31-dag-321205e-BT4-6147500-it332 -> 0.31-dag-4167c1e-BT4-6147500-it332
2. Stockfish - participation confirmed - Stockfish 17 -> dev-20240928-d6043970
3. Ceres - update announced and new larger net - update received - Ceres 1.0_512x15_NLA
4. Ethereal - no reply
5. Caissa - update after deadline exceptionally admitted - Caissa 1.20.1 -> 1.20.2
6. Obsidian - update per discord and reduced hash size to 32GiB -Obsidian dev-13.11 -> dev-13.23
7. Berserk - no update
8. RubiChess - no update
9. KomodoDragon - same 3.3 eol version will play
10. Stormphrax - script update received per discord - Stormphrax 5.0.20_0f8af3f -> 5.0.20_ff25846
11. Revenge - no update
12. Uralochka - update announced - Uralochka3.42.dev5-avx512 received - Uralochka 3.42.dev4-avx512 -> 3.42.dev5-avx512
13. Ginkgo - update Ginkgo 4.33 received, slightly stronger and with multi threaded hash clearing - Ginkgo has start problems concerning hash clearing - fix received - Ginkgo 4.31 -> 4.33
14. PlentyChess - presumably no update before cup update per script - PlentyChess selfgen-dev_3f195496 -> selfgen-dev_11549dce
15. Viridithas - update after deadline exceptionally admitted - Viridithas 15.0.0-dev-f6ea5980 -> 15.0.0-dev-096d7ff2
16. Velvet - possible update coming - v8.1.0-dev1 received - Velvet 8.0.0 -> 8.1.0-dev1
17. Stoofvlees - no update
18. Devre - update to Devre 6.21 received, TB support added - Devre 6.12 -> 6.21
19. Lizard - update tp version 11.0.0 announced - update sent in - Lizard 10.5_439e4896 -> 11.0.0
20. Seer - updates to 20240826 - Seer 2.8.0 -> 20240826
21. rofChade - rofChade crashed in the last game of Swiss 7
22. Igel - update announced - Igel 3.5.6 -> 3.5.7
23. akimbo - update with gainer coming - akimbo 1.1.0-dev -> 1.1.0-dev_32225080
24. Arasan - presumably no update for cup but new network after to be expected - Arasan 4e7f90a -> 008cc1f
25. Booot - no reply
26. Altair - update after deadline exceptionally admitted - Altair 7.1.5 -> 7.1.5-91cb9ca5
27. Minic - no update
28. Tucano - no update
29. Texel - no update
30. Renegade - update per script coming - 1.1.40 submitted - Renegade 1.1.19 -> 1.1.40
31. Patricia - update per script coming
32. DeepSjeng - no update
33. BlackMarlin - no update -> updated to BlackMarlin 9.0-dev-c1437dd0 - BlackMarlin 9.0-dev-578a6f64 -> 9.0-dev-c1437dd0
34. Equisetum - no update yet, announced for following event
35. Winter - small update if promotes
36. Weiss - update announced both fix and gainer
37. Integral - participation confirmed
38. Halogen - update per script coming
39. Marvin - no update and development on hold
40. Heimdall - confirmed invite

Definitive standings and invites after completed Swiss 7

see final standings on tcecbayeselo website

1. 	LCZero 0.31-dag-321205e-BT4-6147500-it332 	
2. 	Stockfish 17 	
3. 	Ceres 1.0_512x15_NLA 	
4. 	Berserk 13 	
5. 	Revenge 20240822 	
6. 	Obsidian dev-13.11 	
7. 	Ethereal 14.40 	
8. 	KomodoDragon 3.3 	
9. 	Caissa 1.20.1 	
10. 	Viridithas 15.0.0-dev-f6ea5980 	
11. 	Stormphrax 5.0.20_0f8af3f 	
12. 	Stoofvlees II d6 	
13. 	Devre 6.12 	
14. 	RubiChess 20240817 	
15. 	Seer 2.8.0 	
16. 	PlentyChess selfgen-dev_3f195496 	
17. 	Ginkgo 4.31 	
18. 	akimbo 1.1.0-dev 	
19. 	Lizard 10.5_439e4896 	
20. 	Texel 1.12a5 	
21. 	Uralochka 3.42.dev4-avx512 	
22. 	Arasan 4e7f90a 	
23. 	Velvet 8.0.0 	
24. 	DeepSjeng 3.6 a30 	
25. 	BlackMarlin 9.0-dev-578a6f64 	
26. 	Igel 3.5.6 	
27. 	Altair 7.1.5 	
28. 	Booot 7.3 	
29. 	Renegade 1.1.19 	
30. 	Minic 3.41 	
31. 	Equisetum 1.9.arvense
32. 	Tucano 11.24 - takes place from rofchade as it cannot play

Engines not updated

1. Berserk
2. Revenge
3. Ethereal
4. KomodoDragon
5. Stoofvlees
6. RubiChess
7. Texel
8. DeepSjeng
9. Booot
10. Minic
11. Equisetum
12. Tucano

Engines that did not reply

1. Ethereal
2. Booot

Seedings

See automated random seeding

Places 1-8 fixed seeding, 9-32 have been randomized:

1. Stockfish (1 winner of prior Cup)
2. LCZero (2 winner of prior Swiss, until 8 in Swiss final standings order)
3. Ceres (3)
4. Berserk (4)
5. Revenge (5)
6. Obsidian (6)
7. Ethereal (7)
8. KomodoDragon (8)
9. Texel (20 randomized order engines as of here)
10. Stormphrax (11)
11. Seer (15)
12. Caissa (9)
13. RubiChess (14)
14. PlentyChess (16)
15. DeepSjeng (24)
16. Arasan (22)
17. Uralochka (21)
18. akimbo (18)
19. Equisetum (31)
20. Booot (28)
21. Stoofvlees (12)
22. BlackMarlin (25)
23. Velvet (23)
24. Igel (26)
25. Tucano (32)
26. Lizard (19)
27. Renegade (29)
28. Ginkgo (17)
29. Minic (30)
30. Altair (27)
31. Viridithas (10)
32. Devre (13)

Cup 14 pairings and bracket

Flowchart of seeded engines in the TCEC Cup 14, in playing order

Opening Books

The opening books for Cup 14 are created by Bastiaan (Twitch kbg519v1a). For the Round of 32 the book lines alternate (one on one) between normal TCEC moderate to high bias lines and short low bias lines. The high bias lines are familiar from high-level play, four to seven moves in length, and the bias always favours the white side. The low bias lines are all just two or three moves long and they are a bit uncommon in human play without being silly. Further information to follow.

Trivia

Bugs and Problems

1. rofChade crashed in the last game of Swiss 7
2. Ginkgo has start problems concerning hash clearing - fix received

Polls

1. Cupset poll
2. Tiebreak poll
3. !go command poll

Cupsets

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Tiebreaks

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Whales & Heroes

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